Wearable robots and our new human potential. When people slap a bunch of jargony terms together to try to sound smart, it usually just ends up being annoying. Like when someone talks about “leveraging their core competency to create a scalable, next-generation business solution.” Blech! Well, although “wearable robotics” sounds like another case of jargon-gone-wrong,…
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[easyazon-image align=”left” asin=”B00F49BK4W” locale=”us” height=”160″ src=”http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XZ-bm4gdL._SL160_.jpg” width=”160″]LADY GAGA ARTPOP is pure delicious futurist porn. She is a musical futurist. ARTPOP is an “Esher” of double entendre and homophones. The lexical structure of ARTPOP goes way beyond where most pop music critics are willing to tread. As a futurist and techno-philosopher, I wanted to gaze into…
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Neurocam is the worlds first wearable camera that reads your brainwaves and takes videos of what you are interested in. According to Diginfo : “The Neurocam arose from the neurowear project, which is involved with items that use brain-waves and bio-sensors, like necomimi, which works using brain-waves. The algorithm for quantifying brain-waves was co-developed with Associate…
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Keloid is a remarkable new trailer created by by Big Lazy Robot. This may be one version of the technological singularity. Not the one we want. According to the Big Lazy Robot website: [easyazon-image align=”left” asin=”0061452068″ locale=”us” height=”160″ src=”http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41TfA2m3u6L._SL160_.jpg” width=”106″]”In a not too distant future, societies of all countries come to rely on an intricate…
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Apple made a huge statement by adding a biometric fingerprint scanner to the new iPhone 5S. The message is clear. The biometric revolution has finally arrived. Apple has a huge digital ecosystem with over 900,000 apps. It has gadgets, including iPads, iPhones, laptops, and possibly a smart watch (in the near future) that will inevitably…
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Futuristic floating homes are on the horizon. What will our future be like when floating homes can easily cross oceans, walls and borders? Will access to homes that float and move freely about the planet cause nationalism to die a long overdue death? Probably not. But it would cause us to question the antiquated and…
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[easyazon-image align=”left” asin=”B0080UVHJU” locale=”us” height=”100″ src=”http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31zTuokzAlL._SL160_.jpg” width=”70″]Imagine entering a bare room as objects slowly populate it: sofa, chairs, tables, lamp fixtures, picture frames, and even a virtual screen. Sounds like science fiction, right? Well, it’s the future of wearable technology, 3D, and close to being like Tony Stark—it’s called Augmented Reality or AR. Blurring the…
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Future art is a new addition to Serious Wonder. Art has often inspired futurology, philosophy and science. Futuristic art can ignite innovation and become a self-fulfulfilling drive that can push humanity forward. We become what we observe. [easyazon-image align=”left” asin=”B005HGBF9W” locale=”us” height=”127″ src=”http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31STyDwO%2BkL._SL160_.jpg” width=”160″]In this new section of Serious Wonder called “Future Art” we will…
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Emotiv creates new Insight for your mind and it looks like the future! Serious Wonder is a huge fan of Emotiv and EEG neuro-technology. Any company that makes design look this good is bound to be a leader in future tech. I love the design, it reminds me of the “face sucker” in Alien. [youtube…
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[easyazon-image align=”left” asin=”B004ZLV4JG” locale=”us” height=”160″ src=”http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41UywapRmbL._SL160_.jpg” width=”88″] Facebook and Google+ are all about sharing our times and joys with the world, to paint the image of our lives or the personality of ourselves that we desire others to see. That is what Social Networking is about today; sharing the sights we enjoy in different locations, whether on…
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ProDesk3D is a beautiful futuristic desktop 3D printer. These guys really understand the importance of design, esthetic and engineering. A rare combination. A company called botObjects is the design and manufacturer of ProDesk3D. The ProDesk3D printer is the first full color 3D desktop printer that delivers production-ready objects. The system uses compact safe engineering, eco-friendly-re-usable cartridge system and seamless software…
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